preserving in sugar; food preserved in sugar
Refers both to the process of preserving food in sugar and to the resulting product. Common with fruits, ginger, or flowers.
This candied ginger is homemade.
Fruit preserved in sugar keeps well.
Standard spelling.
Variant spelling without okurigana; less common but still used.
Compound of 砂糖 (sugar) + 漬け (pickling/preserving), from the verb 漬ける (to soak, pickle).